The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-28
GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS.
Matters of Money and Management
About Various Lines.

ADoub
The charges on lemons from Sanford to
New York is doc. per box. The average
weight per box is 50 pounds. From New
York to Sanford the rate is about soc. per
box.
The ST. Johns, Lake Weir and Gulf rail
road, Florida, arouses great expectations
among the settlers along the proposed line.
Several routes have been surveyed, and the
building OF the road is a probability.
Pensacola, Fla, is reaching out for new
avenues of trade She has already estab-
lished steamer line 10 Milton and Black
water, and contemplates starting another
ON the Conecuh and Escambia rivers.
The Board of Corporators of the Hunts
vile (Ala.) Belt Line and Monte Sano Rail
road Company opened books of subscription
at the office of the North Alabama Improve
ment Company for capital stock to the road,
which is to run from Huntsville to the
mountain.
The engineers of the Georgia Central road
have reached Gadsden, Ala, and will soon
proceed to Decatur. The Tennessee and
Coosa Rivers railroad and the Rome and
Decatur road are doing good business,
making from five to eight trips day from
Gadsden to Alfalfa.
The stockholders of the Alabama and
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company met Fri
increasing the capital stock from s., 200, 900
to not more than IS, 225 600. and its bonded
debt to not more than 81 SOC, 900, and to eff
feet a consolidation with the Sheffield and
Birmingham Railroad Company.
The Railroad Rate Committee have been
wrangling for months over the rate for
dome3tics, baled and unbaled. They have
finally agreed to put domestics at sixth
class. The members of the rate committee
Nl,,A
be done the mill men by placing their goods
in any but the sixth class. The Georgia
railroad has all the time been shipping
goods at sixth class, and so have several
other roads leading out of Augusta
Mr.. Edwin f. Jones, formerly with the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, with
headquarters at Montgomery, Ala, has
been appointed chief engineer of the Buena
Vista and Ellavilie railroad and has taken
charge of the construction work now in
progress near Americas. Mr.. Jones is an
experienced engineer, having long been in
the employ of the Louisville and Nashville
road. His father constructed the Macon
and Western railroad from Macon to At
| lanta, and also the Muscogee road from Ma
con to Columbus, and his brother, Col. I.
| G. Jones, is the present attorney of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad. Engi-
neer Payne, lately resigned from the Buena
ness, will leave shortly for his former home
in Virginia to recuperate.
Greenvile IS. c. NeUs. The committees
| appointed by the citizens mass meeting of
| Aug. /, to prepare material for the big rail
road meeting for the Carolina Knoxville and
| Western, salesday in September, are busily
but quietly at work When the meeting
comes off everything will be found in read
mess for the campaign to open. A petition
for the election on the county subscription
is being drawn up, and an address to the
citizens of the county is in preparation.
The Hon. Sam Mckinney, one of Knox
ville's most prominent citizens, will be at
the meeting, and Col c. w. Charlton, and
perhaps several other leading citizens of
that railroad metropolis of the future, are
also expected. Col. Mckinney was ac-
cused of making the best railroad speech on
record, at the meeting at Knoxville i'll favor
of the Carolina, Knoxville and Western,
and Col Charlton is an ardent and eloquent
champion of the line.
A Greenville, S. c., special of Aug
26, says: about a week ago the Richmond
| and Danville railroad advanced rates on
manufactured cotton goods to Eastern
points, and at that same time raised freights
on coal from the West. The cotton goods
rate was changed from the sixth to the fifth
| class, making an advance of 14c. per 100,
WIli6 Une CCdt TbUo WbHJ up JUC. u
| Both these advances fell heavily on the cot
| ton mills here. The animal freight bill of
| the Piedmont and Camperdown mills is
| over 5000 and the advanced rate meant
an increase of $1,000 a year for the
| Piedmont, and 5000 for Camper
| down. As soon as the new rate was
| announced Col Hammett, the Presi-
dence of these two mills, at once began ship
ping his goods to Charleston, and thence
| North by steamer. The State Railroad
Commission protects rates to Charleston,
and the steamer company gave him a cheap
rate, so that the total was about the same
as the old all-rail rate. This has gone on for
| week. Yesterday Col Hammett received
telegram from D. Cardwell, freight and
passenger agent of the Richmond and Dan
vile, announcing that the old rate would be
resumed from and after to-day. Col. Ham
NETT is so well pleased with the water route
| that, in view of the reduction promised, he
may continue to use it altogether The re-
suit is a complete victory for Col. Hammett's
| mills.